Content Coordinator (Pre-Service Seasonal Staff)

ROLE TITLE: Content Coordinator (Pre-Service Seasonal Staff)

TEAM: Pre-Service 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 16, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET 

LOCATION: Flexible 

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

The Content Coordinator is charged with stewarding the corps member learning arc around pedagogy and content learning, overseeing our programmatic approach and learning structures. The content coordinator ensures that content facilitators are prepared to facilitate excellent Corps Member (CM) learning and development and provide direct support to Content Facilitators who lead those spaces.  The Content Coordinator will work in partnership with Pre-Service Deans to support the development of corps member learning. The Content Coordinator (CC) serves as a support to all Content Facilitators (CFs) in at least one specific content area across multiple huddles. The content coordinator ensures that all logistics are in place for Content Facilitators to be successful. Content Coordinators will be managed by Pre-Service Deans (CCs), who support them to build their capacity to manage facilitator teams effectively.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Spring Training 

• Work in partnership with Pre-Service Deans to support the development of Corps Member learning

• Build strong, asset-based relationships with each Content Facilitator they manage and the larger Content Facilitator and content coordinator team 

• Deeply understand the content and pedagogy outcomes, arc of learning, and the overall preservice outcomes and Corps Member experience 

• Design and facilitate synchronous staff training experiences 

• Utilize our shared systems and structures, support Content Facilitators and Regional Facilitators in internalizing, preparing, and rehearsing Corps Member Programming, 

• Lead and collaborate on the implementation of regionally led spaces to optimize connections across instructional learning cycles and Corps Member arc of development 

• Build knowledge and skill in our Leading Toward Outcomes framework, including internalizing our shared outcomes as well as the tools and resources we’ll use to manage toward those outcomes in the summer 

• Complete training for any pre-service program updates 

• Approve logistical systems that will be used during execution by ops support 

• Engage in regular synchronous, virtual training experiences with Pre-Service Deans starting the week of April 6th, including 1:1 check-ins and role-specific meetings 

Corps Member Training and Practicum

• Regularly observe and provide proactive and just-in-time feedback to Content Facilitators to gauge effectiveness and determine trends

• Actively participate as a member of the Pre-Service leadership team, push information up and roll information down into weekly Content Facilitator meetings (LTO) that model and support Content Facilitator preparation of and readiness for Corps Member Programming

• Collaborate with Pre-Service Deans and other Pre-Service staff to elevate any trends, make connections, solve problems, and develop responsive communication

• Work directly and closely with Pre-Service Deans and others to ensure cohesion and clarity of the work across programmatic strands and through the layers, such that Content Facilitators are positioned to build awareness of and incorporate, as necessary, the response to trends in critical Corps Member learning spaces 

• Support Content Facilitators in developing a shared professional community by offering development opportunities through meeting structures (office hours), guidebooks, and exemplar videos; facilitate a VPLC to support building judgment around pedagogies of adult learning, etc. 

• Work proactively and now to ensure that all the logistical aspects are in place for Content Facilitators, and work quickly to troubleshoot any issues (ex., coverage)

• Engage in decision-making on who and when a Content Facilitator enters the fair warning process and the additional support needed

• Perform quality review of decks to represent preparedness while maintaining the integrity of the session

• Support the hiring and onboarding of any new Content Facilitators during Pre-Service 

• Act as a substitute or proxy for Content Sessions as needed

A WEEK IN THE LIFE 

Over the course of any week, the content coordinator will spend time: 

• Building on one’s understanding of excellence in teacher leadership in order to support Content Facilitator and Corps Member development 

• Making connections with Content Facilitators to illustrate how content sessions directly relate to Teacher Leadership(